Aucoin: Why DON'T Muslims want to kill us?

With literally billions of Muslims living in the world today and literally millions of them living right here in the good old USA, one finds oneself asking: where are all the violent jihadists? Even though the most prolific US mass murderers in our lifetimes have been non-Muslims (see the Pentagon, Big Pharma, Monsanto, et...

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Posted Jun. 18, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Jun 18, 2013 at 6:11 PM

Posted Jun. 18, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Jun 18, 2013 at 6:11 PM

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Why DON'T Muslims want to kill us?

With literally billions of Muslims living in the world today and literally millions of them living right here in the good old USA, one finds oneself asking: where are all the violent jihadists? Even though the most prolific US mass murderers in our lifetimes have been non-Muslims (see the Pentagon, Big Pharma, Monsanto, etc), we are continually presented by the gov-media with the political question of "why" Muslims want to kill us. The left answers the question by citing the illegal invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, or maybe Washington's unlawful torture programs or indefinite detentions or drone assassinations of innocent Muslims around the world.

Meanwhile, the American right still parrots the Bush/Cheney childish answer: "because they hate our freedoms."

But If the whole hating freedom thing were true, the terrorists won the moment the first "patriot" act was passed in late 2001, but especially by the time Watertown, MA was placed under the boot of martial law on Patriots Day, 2013.

Thankfully, simple population math reveals that the politicians are debating the wrong question. The right question is: why don't Muslims want to kill us? After all, it should be obvious to anyone with a good imagination that anyone who's determined to kill a bunch of Americans could easily do so. So I ask again, where are all the violent jihadists? Why are we able to go to malls and restaurants and libraries and banks and supermarkets without fear?

Are we to believe that this government is somehow stopping every mall bomber? Really? The same government that was warned about Tamerlan Tsarnaev yet failed to stop him? The same government that was conveniently in the middle of a terror drill in Boston on Marathon Day, complete with bomb-sniffing dogs, yet failed to stop the bloodshed at the finish line - a location that had been specifically identified as a potential target?

The same government that had been tracking the 9/11 hijackers for several months prior to 9/11 yet failed to stop them? The same government that routinely gives "WMDs" to suspected terrorists in the hopes of arresting them before they act? The same government that failed to stop one such WMD recipient in NYC on February 26,1993?

That government?

Let us be real: if even the teensiest percentage of the world's Muslims truly wanted to kill us, we'd be unable to leave the house. Because, despite massive increases in "homeland security" since 9/11, there are still hundreds if not thousands of clever ways that anyone who's determined could kill a bunch of Americans if they really wanted to. One kid proved that in five hellish minutes at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

So I ask again, why don't Muslims want to kill us? My guess is they are basically peaceful folks who don't believe in punishing all Americans for the acts of a few.